The Leasehold Advisory Service, the government funded Leasehold Advisory Service, has been under review by the government for much of the last ten years. This seems to suggest that something is wrong, yet the government’s long-standing support for the Leasehold Advisory Service continues. LKP has, after many requests, obtained the two most recent reviews of […]

Current number of members 151 + 10 friends Listed below are the members of the All Party Parliamentary Group looking into Leasehold and Commonhold reform in the new parliament. The list is updated as new members join and will be updated on this page throughout the parliament. Any member of parliament in the Commons or […]

Labour MP for Ellesmere Port & Neston, Justin Madders has delayed the second reading of the Leasehold Reform Bill until October 26 2018. The Bill seeks to introduce a statutory formula for enfranchisement and lease extension similar to schemes in Northern Ireland and Scotland. It will end the incessant game-playing and revenues from the lease […]

We are all waiting for Sajid Javid The All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform met on December 6 at Westminster. Overshadowing all was the conclusion of Communities Secretary Sajid Javid’s report on “Tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market”: the review that he announced in the summer, that concluded in September, into […]

A fulsome denunciation of the present rip-off leasehold system has been made in the starkest Corbynista terms … by Tory MP Crispin Blunt, who represents leafy Reigate, in non-leasehold Surrey. He says: “Present-day “onerous ground rents” are, more likely than not, the resultant of unconscionable conduct carried out by one sector of society who have […]

An application for a backbench debate on leasehold issues is due to be heard on Tuesday 21st November 2017 http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/backbench-business-committee/ The application asks the committee to consider: The APPG on leasehold and commonhold reform continues to grow and to date has 127 members. Government recently issued both a consultation and a call for evidence on […]

Thousands of homeowners on new build estates are facing escalating management charges for unadopted roads and patches of ground. Speculators are hoovering up these assets for the lucrative income streams, enforced through covenants on freehold houses and lease terms in leasehold properties. A campaign group called the HomeOwners’ Rights Network is asking the All Party […]

Ground rents should simply be banned; commonhold introduced and made compulsory; developers should be summoned for ‘Philip Green’ shaming by select committees; and rip-off ‘fleasehold’ permission fees should be ended. These were issues discussed at a standing-room only meeting of All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold on Monday, that attracted more than 100 […]

The Commons library has done a superb job of spelling out the problems of leasehold. It is the first time we have seen a third party report into this sector with no regard to the disingenuous interventions from self-interested professionals, trade bodies, dubious “stakeholders” or compromised quangos. Its report, published yesterday and written by Wendy […]

The All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform today calls for leasehold houses to be banned and for end to onerous ground rents. It can be read here This follows the work of the APPG and its secretariat the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership in exposing the scandal of leasehold houses. Today, Taylor Wimpey undertook to spend […]

In the House of Commons today one of the latest members of the leasehold reform APPG spoke passionately about the scandal of leasehold houses. MP for South West Bedfordshire, Andrew Selous, raised the unacceptable practice of large developers buying freehold land on which they then sell houses on a leasehold basis. This is currently taking […]

Taylor Wimpey has undertaken to cease building revenue generating leasehold houses from January 1. The announcement comes in a letter to LKP MP patrons Jim Fitzpatrick and Sir Peter Bottomley, and was made before the All Party Parliamentary Group meeting last Wednesday. Taylor Wimpey says that it sold leasehold houses in the North West, a […]

Commons debate leasehold. Tuesday December 20 The case made for the debate by Jim Fitzpatrick and Sir Peter Bottomley can be watched on parliament’s own TV here: http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/5069cc08-aeee-4451-93d8-fef9b0802407?in=14:31:10 The Commons library briefing on the debate is here: http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CDP-2016-0253

… and Taylor Wimpey backs down on building more leasehold houses More than 70 stakeholders, MPs and peers attended last night’s meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold reform. The meeting, chaired by Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour, Poplar and Limehouse), was called at short notice following the upsurge of anger at Taylor Wimpey. The […]

The first speaker at the APPG was Patrick Collinson, Money editor, at the Guardian, who has been campaigning with this story over the past month and half. Although Mr Collinson kindly acknowledged the activities of LKP, he was first alerted to doubling rents by his 90-year-old father. The latter was advising Mr Collinson’s brother on […]

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The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership is the secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform chaired by the MPs Sir Peter Bottomley (Conservative), Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour) and Sir Ed Davey (LibDem). They are also the patrons of LKP.